Word: ear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Morgan's charge is music to Helms' ear, since his aim is to scare liberals. One reason he proposes so many amendments is to force Senators to get on the record. Viguerie argues that this is what the New Right is all about. "These liberals aren't used to having their voting records spotlighted," says Viguerie. "We've finally learned not to rely on the media, which has a liberal bias anyway. So we bypass them by mail and TV and go directly to the voters. Democrats don't like that, and they...
...name in the 1970s never varied. First Close photographed the sitter, with a depth of field so short that there are blurs of focus in the distance from the eyeball to the tip of the nose, or from the edge of a Up to the lobe of the ear. Then he made color separations of the image and scaled it up to the giant canvas by means of a finely ruled grid. After that the image was transferred, square by square...
...could never refer to anyone without calling him "my dear friend." "My dear friend Phyllis Schlafly just dropped in," he once told me. Another time--this was with John Updike at the Algonquin--Volodya turned to me and, with his mouth still full of mashed potatoes, whispered into my ear, "Reminds me of the way my very, very, very dear friend Rusty Staub cooks...
...have an eye, but he does have an ear. American Pop lurches to life when he appropriates Dylan's Don't Think Twice, It's All Right, and, later, Bob Seger's Night Moves, to celebrate rock creativity, and evoke a moment, a decade, with poignant immediacy. But neither lasts more than 30 seconds, and sitting through the rest of American Pop is like watching an anthology of melodramatic scenes from late-night movies, with commercials every ten minutes for Greatest Hits LPs. -By Richard Corliss
...prodigious collector of modern slips was Kermit Schafer, whose "blooper" records of mistakes made on radio and television consisted largely of toilet jokes, but were nonetheless a great hit in the 1950s. Schafer was an avid self-promoter and something of a blooper himself, but he did have an ear for such things as the introduction by Radio Announcer Harry Von Zell of President "Hoobert Heever," as well as the interesting message: "This portion of Woman on the Run is brought to you by Phillips' Milk of Magnesia." Bloopers are the lowlife of verbal error, but spoonerisms...